What if?

Sometimes when I see a rain puddle tinted with sky I get really excited, because for a second my childish mind believes that instead of looking at just a plain puddle, I am looking through a hole in the ground to the sky of a different world. This is only for a second mind you, but in that second I am very happy.

I think we've all had glimpses, flashes of fantasy, wishes of whimsy.
Just the other day I was sitting in my favorite coffee shop on Gray Street, swirling an invigorating cup of peppermint tea, and watching the dregs at the bottom shift from shape to shape. After swirling into an oblong cat, then a blob like ink on a page, these dregs, I promise you, formed the shape a ship! Complete with flags!
Sure enough, as soon as I blinked it was swept away into something else, but oh, the happy circumstance of finding a ship in your tea cup. It makes the day seem very extraordinary.

I'm on to you dreamworld, I know you're out there. All I have to do is find your gate.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if you meant to splash in an inviting rain puddle, but instead fell all the way through to a world where mail was delivered by kites or the mayor was decided by whoever could grow the longest beard? Wouldn't it be wonderful if the world was powered by silly things and laughter? If the world was sillier I don't think that there would be taxes. Taxes are anything but silly. And everyone would have a giraffe, because those things really are absurd. Who on earth would have thought up a creature with such a long neck? Ever watched one of those things try and drink from a watering hole? They have to nearly do the splits. I pity the giraffe who loses a contact lens.

Point being, there are a lot of silly things in the world when you really think about it. I think those silly things get me through the day, taking something and asking "What if?"opens a whole new world of possibilities.